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Diet & Exercise Plan

The First Step is the Most ImportantCongratulations on taking the first step toward a healthier approach to living! The key to long-lasting health and wellness is maintaining a balance of work and play; eat well, enjoy activities and spend time with friends and loved ones. This guide provides you with useful information on what and how to eat, optimizing your exercise program and making time for mental health and relaxation. As you get started, it may be helpful to plan your daily diet and exercise goals until you forge a system that compliments your lifestyle. Once you have the hang of eating right and exercising regularly, maintaining your new routine becomes easy. This Diet and Exercise Plan should be approached as a lifestyle modification rather than a short term change. Ready, Steady, Go!

Enjoy the Food You Eathen considering a dietary change, the idea isn't to deprive yourself, but rather learn how to make wise food choices. Once you understand the importance of particular foods and how to incorporate them into your daily life, making healthy food choices becomes easy. In essence, variety is the right idea! Try new foods and explore adding various spices to your diet, such as garlic and cinnamon. Try to keep your plate colorful and experiment with different food textures. Remember healthy food choices is not about sacrifice, its about identifying what is the best diet option and changing the way you think and feel about food. For a balanced diet its important to incorporate a variety of different foods. Understanding when and what to eat and what would make the most sense in your life is what will facilitate overall success.

What Should You Eat?Eating is essential and making wise food choices will give your health and your waistline the support it really needs. Whole food is a term used a lot but may not be completely understood. The term refers literally to food in its whole form, with minimal processing to keep it as close to its original form as possible. For example; visualize a whole apple and compare it to a glass of apple juice. The juice on its own does not contain all of the skin, seeds or fleshy center. The whole apple offers all the goodness of the entire fruit and so offers greater health properties. This example applies to most all foods, so choosing whole foods over processed means you get the richest supply of nutrients possible.

Color is important. Antioxidants called polyphenols are responsible for the brightly colored pigments (vibrant reds, greens, blues and purples) of many fruits and vegetables. By keeping your food choices colorful, not only do you get a gorgeous looking meal, but you'll also benefit from the positive health impact those colorful foods provide.

The morning meal should be comprised mostly of protein. People mistakenly presume that a carbohydrate breakfast is the best choice. This is partially correct in that carbohydrates such as whole grain cereals are high in fiber which promotes digestive health. However, after fasting for 12 hours overnight, eating carbohydrates only for breakfast results in a glucose surge or sugar spike, followed shortly after by a sugar slump, characterized by low energy and the return of hunger. Energy produced from proteins and fats are delivered in a more sustaining form to avoid drastic spikes and falls in blood sugar. Look to include proteins for breakfast such as yoghurt, turkey sausage and bacon, lean steak, eggs or a protein shake.

When Should You Eat?Always eat breakfast! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, after fasting for 8 hours through the night; the body relies on sustenance in the morning for physical and mental energy and focus. Ideally you should eat within an hour of waking to stimulate metabolism and get you going for the day. By not giving your body fuel at regular intervals, every 3-6(max) hours, the body goes into what we call ‘starvation mode'. Starvation mode involves the body hording calories from food into fat cells instead of burning it. In this way, it can be used for fuel when the body goes longer than needed without sustenance. This is why when trying to maintain a healthy weight its best to eat small meals every 3 hours (4-5 times per day) to encourage optimal break down of food and stimulate metabolism.

Eating snacks in between meals helps to maintain balanced blood sugar levels and restricts overeating. See the list of healthy snack options below for ideas.

The occasional carbohydrate heavy meal such as pasta, rice, breads and potatoes, should only be eaten in the middle of the day, versus in the morning. Try to balance the impact of carbohydrates on blood sugar by adding protein.

Keep your evening meal light and try to eat before 7pm. Your body uses night time sleeping hours to cleanse, restore and rejuvenate the digestive and eliminatory systems. For your metabolism to function at its most efficient, it depends on this nightly restorative process to keep your body operating at optimum levels.

A Suggested Menu Plan for a DayEat small meals throughout the day to optimize digestive metabolism. This puts less of a burden on your digestive system and allows your metabolism to function more efficiently. Drink a glass of water before meals to decrease the chances of overeating. Keep a supply of low fat healthy snacks around to lessen the chance of falling into bad habits and overeating. Here are some healthy snack suggestions:

Lunch: Cup of cooked brown rice with baked chicken breast, ¼ cup steamed broccoli and ¼ cup of carrots. Glass of water with lemon. Vegetables provide important vitamins, minerals and fiber so eat in abundance. Other vegetables to include might be spinach, carrots, celery, asparagus and broccoli, avocado, kale and beets. Carbohydrates come in many forms. They help you feel full and provide you with the energy to keep going. Healthy carbohydrate choices include: oatmeal, bran muffins, rice, whole grain bread, quinoa and whole wheat pasta and cous cous.

Avoid going to a party on an empty stomach. Eat a small salad and drink a glass of water or before you go.

As soon as you are done eating, leave the table so you won't pick at your food and eat more.

When you eat out, ask for all sauces and dressings on the side.

Try on new clothes. This is one of the best self-motivating tools you can use to eat right.

Take only half of what your appetite calls for. You'll be surprised that you may not want a second helping.

It takes approximately 20 minutes for your brain to recognize that you're full. Eat slowly and chew each bite, chewing is an integral part of the breaking down and metabolism of foods.

Brush your teeth after eating so you won't eat anymore.

Read ingredient labels when grocery shopping. Isolate key information such as saturated fat content, sodium and sugar. Ideally, saturated fat should be under 4gms per serving, sodium under 500mg per serving and sugar no more than 6gms per serving.

How to ExerciseMake a commitment to invest at least four hours per week to exercise. Aim for 30-60 minute workouts 3 times per week to support a healthy body and mind. As soon as you feel your enthusiasm decreasing, try a different activity. Team up with a friend. Having a buddy who is committed to a fitness strategy will keep you motivated and increase your chances of success. To achieve a toned, hard-body look, try adding at least two hours a week of free -weight or weight-machine training to your aerobic routine. Lean muscle weighs more than fat, so pay less attention to scales. Exercising in the morning will encourage calorie burning and energy all day long and exercising before meals helps reduce your appetite.

Which Exercise is Best?Cardiovascular exercises such as jogging, rollerblading, bike riding and basketball stimulates your entire body, encouraging circulation, stamina, heart and lung health, lymphatic drainage and more. It can also help to enhance your mood and focus. Weight-training exercise increases lean muscle mass. Muscle tissue burns calories for energy so the greater amount of muscle tissue you have, the more calories you can burn.

Other forms of exercise like yoga, rock climbing and dancing use many muscle groups as well as encourage deep breathing and stamina.

A Suggested Exercise Plan for One Week:When getting started set your goals at 15-30min each day and build it up to 30-60min over time.

Some Exercises are Better Than OthersWhen it comes to dieting, the goal is to burn calories and different exercises do that at different rates. Here are some examples of the energy expended by a 150-pound person in 30 minutes of continuous exercise:

Reduce Your Calories by 3,500 and You Will Lose 1 PoundThat does not mean starve yourself. The goal is to maintain a healthy, balanced diet while reducing total caloric intake. If your trying to lose weight starving yourself is one of the worst things you can do. The key is, as we have said, slow and steady weight loss.

Alcohol May Not Be All BadAlcohol contains 7 calories per gram, so it's nearly twice as fattening as carbohydrates or protein.

In addition, alcohol can encourage the munchies. This leads to extra calorie intake which can cause weight gain. That said , a major US survey has found that dieters who give up alcohol lose no more weight than dieters who include moderate amounts of alcohol in their diet.

Calories in Sample Drinks

Weight loss depends on your overall calorie intake. Reduce your calories by 3500 and you will lose 1 pound. So since alcohol is fairly high in calories with little or no nutrition, you will certainly save calories by abstaining.

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Be autonomously motivated - It's great to be inspired to lose weight for a special occasion, a reunion or a party but studies have shown that the people who are most likely to maintain their weight loss are the ones who aren't motivated by anything outside of themselves. These are people who have simply decided that it's time for them to lose weight and improve their health.

Set realistic goals - Even with the best behavior-modification programs people can typically reduce their weight by 10 to 15 percent . If you try to lose 20 or 30 percent, you're likely to either fail and be discouraged or simply regain the weight. By setting realistic targets you set yourself up for success, once the target has been reached it's easier to define a new one with the confidence that comes from success.

Replace bad habits with good ones - There's nothing wrong with having a snack in the afternoon, in fact it's a great idea, just make sure that the food you chose is a piece of fruit or a low fat yogurt and not a donut.

You will have bad days, they come with the territory - It's important to realize that. Factor disappointment into your overall plan. One day of weakness does not undo one month of hard work.

Think less about losing weight and more about gaining health - You may start out trying to fit into that new dress and wind up saving your life. Obesity is only one symptom of an unhealthy lifestyle. Think healthy, not just skinny. Diet sodas, Wow chips, and artificially sweetened candy bars may help you cut calories, but healthy they're not. Each time you chew on a high- or low-calorie candy bar you miss a chance to swallow some phytochemicals neatly packaged in a wedge of watermelon or a handful of berries. Luckily, the same foods that cut your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke should help you trim that extra padding. Don't think of them as punishment.

Shrink your servings - People who frequent restaurants are more likely to be overweight. That's not only because of the type of food they eat but also the portion size. Restaurants find it extremely cost effective to serve large portionsthe cost of food is a very small percentage of overhead, people get used to large portions and think that's the norm.

Curb liquid calories - Liquid calories don't trip our satiety mechanisms: you don't feel full after a soda or juice although you may have just downed as many calories as a small meal.

Make movement part of your life - This doesn't necessarily mean five sets of tennis or marathon running. Gardening, raking leaves, mowing the lawn, and washing windows also count. People who boost their lifestyle activity are just as successful at keeping the weight off as people who participate in formal exercise programs. In fact, overweight children lose more weight when told to limit sedentary activities than when told to exercise (or to do both). Getting kids to turn off the TV or spend less time at the computer works better than urging them to increase their aerobic activity.

Exercise for weight maintenance - Surprisingly, exercise doesn't actually make much difference when you're trying to lose weight. Fairly strenuous exercise-30 to 40 minutes three or four times a week-produces only a two to six pound weight loss over six months, that's because exercise just doesn't burn that many calories. However it is a great way to keep weight off and make you healthier, and as we keep saying the secret is to think about gaining health not losing weight.

Be patient - It's not easy to make such a radical change in your lifestyle you're relearning habits that may have taken you a lifetime to learn, so have a little patience with yourself.

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